IANAL, but I don't think this is entirely true. If she signed a contract with them, and in the contract they promised to let her attend, they may be forced to do it, even in the case the contract contained conditions like that she never drinks etc. Conditions like that are not necessarily legally enforcible.
I live in USA, and I can'd stand american TV. Nobody I know back in Europe ever watches american TV. Why would anybody want to do that? American TV sucks!
and listen to american music
Yeah, sometimes. USA did have few fairly decend bands in the past. And of course, Aaron Copland is cool.
too while eating a mcdonalds cheeseburger
Yuck!
and a drinking a budwiser.
Yes, Budwiser is pretty good beer, but what in the hell does it have to do with America? Ah, you are talking about that horsepiss!
Your Bible may have moon in it, but that's only because it was smuggled in there by them Jews! My Bible has no moon in it! You must be a Catholic or something!
NTC reserves the right to contact the local University and inform them on any infringement of the honor code
What in the hell is a "local University"? Say you live in Boston, which of the universities would it be? And why would they care about what I do? What "honor code" are they talking about?
The one account = one computer totally irks me. I refuse to sign up with any ISP that has that policy. I need two computers online more that I need broadband, so I just go with a dialup for now, until I find a broadband provider servicing my area that doesn't have this stupid clause.
That's exactly the point! If MS implement this right, it will be handled by the OS, so the applications won't have to do anything special to use this. In reality, there may be couple of problems. Infinite loops will have to handled somehow, but since most applications on Windows use the same canned open file dialog from some system dll, all MS will have to do is rewrite this dll. Of course some applications use other widget sets, like gtk, but that just means that gtk for windows developers will have to handle failure to poen files due to infinite symlink loop in their file open dialog. Since gtk originated on Unix, it should be already there. The other problem is that applications will no longer be able to assume that different filenames means different files, but I don't really see where this could cause serious problems. To most users, symlinks will look just like ordinary files or directories. More so than the damn shortcuts. I sure hope that when they introduce symlinks, they get rid of the shortcuts!
1) That's how symlinks are supposed to work! Say you have 50 symlinks to/some/file/somewhere. You want to replace the file by some other file, but keep a backup copy. So you do mv/some/file/somewhere/some/file/somewhereelse, at which moment your symlinks become broken. Now you do mv/some/other/file/somewhere/some/file/somewhere, and all your links work again, pointing to the NEW file.
In 2), you are just repeating the same thing as in 1), and the answer is the same. That's exactly the way it is supposed to work, and that's where the real strength of symlinks is. In the situation you describe, you can continue by symlinking/opt/media/tunes to/usr/local/tunes, and if a file named YMCA.mp3 is in/opt/media/tunes, your symlink will start working again, pointing to the new file.
As far as 3) goes, if you understand how symlinks work and how chrooted filesystems work, you can avoid all the "weirds". Symlinking is a very powerful tool, and as with any powerful tool, if you don't inderstand it, it is easy to mess things up.
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Your hand is so sore you can barely write with it; your fingers seem permanently dented where your pencil resides.. in fact, every muscle in your body aches. Theyve been aching for so long you cant remember.. painkillers do nothing now. Youve had 8 strong coffees, your mind is numb and throbbs... Your neck is so stiff and sore... not a wink of sleep in days, yet you just couldnt fully fall asleep if you tried. Social interaction is futile - you can barely manage to utter coherent language, and most of such encounters are awkward and embarassing. All you can do is calculation, logic - the world around you seems etherally mechanical, filled with logical/mathematical portent. Youve been sitting on your bed for 12 hours straight, listening to the same song over and over, its 4AM, and nothing makes any sense anymore.
I agree, I am at a University too, and I feel just like that when grading exams.
Possible failure looms, watches you like a hawk - it forces you onward, mercilissly. Theres over 20 hours more material to study. The exam starts in 4 hours.
I am completely with you. I also use primarily TeX, and I totally dislike the menu interface that most of current gui software uses. I am a long time Unix and Linux user (I learned Unix before I learned Windows) and I generally try to avoid Windows like the plague, but I am really intriqued by this new interface they are implementing.
you're going to have to rely on college kids and the occasional charitable big company for your Linux software
Except that I don't rely on college kids, I rely on people like Donald Knuth and Bram Moolenar and so on.
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Yeah, I remember my first encounter with vi. At that time, I was doing a lot of programming on DOS, and I used the Borland IDE all the time - turbo pascal, turbo c++, turbo prolog etc. Then I got a job where I had to use Unix, and the only editor that seemed to be installed was this thing called vi, everybody around was using it, so I gave it a try. My reaction was something like "what kind of sadistic moron created this thing? And how come everybody is using this, isn't there anything better?" I ended up doing most of my editting at home on my DOS machine, and bringing a floppy disk to work, and using dos2unix and unix2dos a lot.
Later I started to work on Solaris, quickly learned Emacs, and used that for few years, got tired of the size and complexity of the beast, switch ed to JED (also to get syntax highlighting, which Emacs didn't do at that time). Then I heard lot of people talking about Vim, how great it is, how fast and efficient you can be when you use it, etc, so I decided to sit down and spend few days learning it, no matter how bad and hard it seemd at the beginning. That was probably the best invested time I have ever spent in front of a computer. It took me about a week to completely switch to Vim and become a Vim fanatic (I must admit that playing a lot of Nethack helped, too). Now Vim is the first thing I install when using a new computer, and I do almost all my editting in Vim.
If you actually read the comment you are replying to, you quickly discover that first, he didn't imply in any way that the story of Count Dracula was written by an American, and, second, he never said that Americans are ignorant. He did talk about stupid American movie, which doesn't surprise me, the popular Count Dracula movie must seem pretty idiotic to a Romanian.
BTW, Count Dracula was also the first story that associated vampires with bats. If you look at traditional European folklore (and actually any lore that has some sort of vampire characters in it), bats are never mentioned in connection with vampires.
So what this means is that if the bird flu and another strain mutate in one cell, there are hundreds of possibilities. You could wind up with a dead virus, a weak virus, a slight modification of the other strain that the body already has a defence against, a new virus that the immune system can adapt to, a new virus that the body can not adapt to(worst case)
Yes, but if you have thousands or even millions of cells where this happens, you have pretty high chance of getting all the possibilities. The weak viruses won't survive, so you will be left with the strong and nasty ones.
Actually, the FREE software movement started as a reaction to the mess that proprieatry UNIX market was. Why do you think GNU stands for GNU is NOT UNIX?
As for linux, if you read Linus's early e-mails from 1991, you won't find any mention of Windows in it. Couple times he mentions DOS. It doesn't surprise me, because at that time, Windows was just beginning to be popular, around version 3.1. I think that both increasing popularity or Windows as well as emmergence of Linux can be attributed to Intel's 80386 chip.
I think for a long time Linux evolved pretty much independently od Windows. It's only lately that we see a lot of work being done on "desktop environments" that are inspired by/competing with Windows in some way. There is a lot of newer applications (like office suites) that are definitely influeneced by Microsoft. Interestingly, I almost never use any of them. I only use OpenOffice or Abiword to open word documents that other people send me, and gnumeric to keep track of grades (and I am actually thinking about going back to slsc, which I used before).
I have serious doubts about online class managment systems saving paper. From what I have seen, most students print anything posted to Blackboard or WebCT. Then they loose it, and print it again. I hear from computer lab assistants that many students leave printed syllabi and assignments sitting on the printer. They print it, then they leave and don't even bother to pick it up, because they know they can always get it again online.
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You have no spine!
IANAL, but I don't think this is entirely true. If she signed a contract with them, and in the contract they promised to let her attend, they may be forced to do it, even in the case the contract contained conditions like that she never drinks etc. Conditions like that are not necessarily legally enforcible.
I think that what grandparent is trying to say is that these types of contracts are not legaly binding, and the students should fight them in court.
Bring me some lions!
Hear, hear! I think it is about time to resurect this unjustly abandoned tradition!
But that's what everyone is trying to do! Make the best Linux distro, so that everybody will use it, right?
You probably watch american TV
I live in USA, and I can'd stand american TV. Nobody I know back in Europe ever watches american TV. Why would anybody want to do that? American TV sucks!
and listen to american music
Yeah, sometimes. USA did have few fairly decend bands in the past. And of course, Aaron Copland is cool.
too while eating a mcdonalds cheeseburger
Yuck!
and a drinking a budwiser.
Yes, Budwiser is pretty good beer, but what in the hell does it have to do with America? Ah, you are talking about that horsepiss!
Your Bible may have moon in it, but that's only because it was smuggled in there by them Jews! My Bible has no moon in it! You must be a Catholic or something!
This book doesn't count! It was written by a Frenchman!
NTC reserves the right to contact the local University and inform them on any infringement of the honor code
What in the hell is a "local University"? Say you live in Boston, which of the universities would it be? And why would they care about what I do? What "honor code" are they talking about?
The one account = one computer totally irks me. I refuse to sign up with any ISP that has that policy. I need two computers online more that I need broadband, so I just go with a dialup for now, until I find a broadband provider servicing my area that doesn't have this stupid clause.
That's exactly the point! If MS implement this right, it will be handled by the OS, so the applications won't have to do anything special to use this. In reality, there may be couple of problems. Infinite loops will have to handled somehow, but since most applications on Windows use the same canned open file dialog from some system dll, all MS will have to do is rewrite this dll. Of course some applications use other widget sets, like gtk, but that just means that gtk for windows developers will have to handle failure to poen files due to infinite symlink loop in their file open dialog. Since gtk originated on Unix, it should be already there. The other problem is that applications will no longer be able to assume that different filenames means different files, but I don't really see where this could cause serious problems. To most users, symlinks will look just like ordinary files or directories. More so than the damn shortcuts. I sure hope that when they introduce symlinks, they get rid of the shortcuts!
1) That's how symlinks are supposed to work! Say you have 50 symlinks to /some/file/somewhere. You want to replace the file by some other file, but keep a backup copy. So you do mv /some/file/somewhere /some/file/somewhereelse, at which moment your symlinks become broken. Now you do mv /some/other/file/somewhere /some/file/somewhere, and all your links work again, pointing to the NEW file.
/opt/media/tunes to /usr/local/tunes, and if a file named YMCA.mp3 is in /opt/media/tunes, your symlink will start working again, pointing to the new file.
In 2), you are just repeating the same thing as in 1), and the answer is the same. That's exactly the way it is supposed to work, and that's where the real strength of symlinks is. In the situation you describe, you can continue by symlinking
As far as 3) goes, if you understand how symlinks work and how chrooted filesystems work, you can avoid all the "weirds". Symlinking is a very powerful tool, and as with any powerful tool, if you don't inderstand it, it is easy to mess things up.
Your hand is so sore you can barely write with it; your fingers seem permanently dented where your pencil resides.. in fact, every muscle in your body aches. Theyve been aching for so long you cant remember.. painkillers do nothing now. Youve had 8 strong coffees, your mind is numb and throbbs... Your neck is so stiff and sore... not a wink of sleep in days, yet you just couldnt fully fall asleep if you tried. Social interaction is futile - you can barely manage to utter coherent language, and most of such encounters are awkward and embarassing. All you can do is calculation, logic - the world around you seems etherally mechanical, filled with logical/mathematical portent. Youve been sitting on your bed for 12 hours straight, listening to the same song over and over, its 4AM, and nothing makes any sense anymore.
I agree, I am at a University too, and I feel just like that when grading exams.
Possible failure looms, watches you like a hawk - it forces you onward, mercilissly. Theres over 20 hours more material to study. The exam starts in 4 hours.
Oh. Never mind.
Who in the world moded this funny? That's insightful! AMOF, I would say that's the most insightful post in this whole discussion!
I am completely with you. I also use primarily TeX, and I totally dislike the menu interface that most of current gui software uses. I am a long time Unix and Linux user (I learned Unix before I learned Windows) and I generally try to avoid Windows like the plague, but I am really intriqued by this new interface they are implementing.
He accidentally downloaded Abiword
you're going to have to rely on college kids and the occasional charitable big company for your Linux software
Except that I don't rely on college kids, I rely on people like Donald Knuth and Bram Moolenar and so on.
Yeah, I remember my first encounter with vi. At that time, I was doing a lot of programming on DOS, and I used the Borland IDE all the time - turbo pascal, turbo c++, turbo prolog etc. Then I got a job where I had to use Unix, and the only editor that seemed to be installed was this thing called vi, everybody around was using it, so I gave it a try. My reaction was something like "what kind of sadistic moron created this thing? And how come everybody is using this, isn't there anything better?" I ended up doing most of my editting at home on my DOS machine, and bringing a floppy disk to work, and using dos2unix and unix2dos a lot.
Later I started to work on Solaris, quickly learned Emacs, and used that for few years, got tired of the size and complexity of the beast, switch ed to JED (also to get syntax highlighting, which Emacs didn't do at that time). Then I heard lot of people talking about Vim, how great it is, how fast and efficient you can be when you use it, etc, so I decided to sit down and spend few days learning it, no matter how bad and hard it seemd at the beginning. That was probably the best invested time I have ever spent in front of a computer. It took me about a week to completely switch to Vim and become a Vim fanatic (I must admit that playing a lot of Nethack helped, too). Now Vim is the first thing I install when using a new computer, and I do almost all my editting in Vim.
If you actually read the comment you are replying to, you quickly discover that first, he didn't imply in any way that the story of Count Dracula was written by an American, and, second, he never said that Americans are ignorant. He did talk about stupid American movie, which doesn't surprise me, the popular Count Dracula movie must seem pretty idiotic to a Romanian.
BTW, Count Dracula was also the first story that associated vampires with bats. If you look at traditional European folklore (and actually any lore that has some sort of vampire characters in it), bats are never mentioned in connection with vampires.
No, no, You've got it all wrong! Everybody knows that the Romany people (aka gypsies) came from Egypt. Ergo, Romania must be in Egypt.
You have to admit that this theory is much more romantic!
So what this means is that if the bird flu and another strain mutate in one cell, there are hundreds of possibilities. You could wind up with a dead virus, a weak virus, a slight modification of the other strain that the body already has a defence against, a new virus that the immune system can adapt to, a new virus that the body can not adapt to(worst case)
Yes, but if you have thousands or even millions of cells where this happens, you have pretty high chance of getting all the possibilities. The weak viruses won't survive, so you will be left with the strong and nasty ones.
Actually, the FREE software movement started as a reaction to the mess that proprieatry UNIX market was. Why do you think GNU stands for GNU is NOT UNIX?
As for linux, if you read Linus's early e-mails from 1991, you won't find any mention of Windows in it. Couple times he mentions DOS. It doesn't surprise me, because at that time, Windows was just beginning to be popular, around version 3.1. I think that both increasing popularity or Windows as well as emmergence of Linux can be attributed to Intel's 80386 chip.
I think for a long time Linux evolved pretty much independently od Windows. It's only lately that we see a lot of work being done on "desktop environments" that are inspired by/competing with Windows in some way. There is a lot of newer applications (like office suites) that are definitely influeneced by Microsoft. Interestingly, I almost never use any of them. I only use OpenOffice or Abiword to open word documents that other people send me, and gnumeric to keep track of grades (and I am actually thinking about going back to slsc, which I used before).
You mean "we don't start eating people", right? "News for canibals, meat that matters", anyone?
Not the kissing again!
Killed by pirates is good.
I have serious doubts about online class managment systems saving paper. From what I have seen, most students print anything posted to Blackboard or WebCT. Then they loose it, and print it again. I hear from computer lab assistants that many students leave printed syllabi and assignments sitting on the printer. They print it, then they leave and don't even bother to pick it up, because they know they can always get it again online.